Posts by Professor Sean Ó Riain
Professor Sean Ó Riain
The Crucial Role of Enterprise Policy
Sean Ó Riain 19/06/2018
This past week has brought new controversies about Ireland’s status as a ‘tax haven’, following new research from researchers at the University of California Berkeley and the University of Copenhagen that shows Ireland with one of the highest global ratios of corporate profits to wages, particularly among US corporations. The analysis in …
State Investment Bank
Sean Ó Riain 31/10/2011
Sean O Riain: Michael O’Sullivan and I have an article in today’s Irish Times arguing for a state investment bank. Some links to supporting …
Ireland after NAMA - New Blog
Sean Ó Riain 02/12/2009
Sean O Riain: There is a new and interesting blog written mainly, but not exclusively, by geographers at http://irelandafternama.wordpress.com/ For a …
Class and Employment Decline
Sean Ó Riain 30/06/2009
Sean O Riain: It is worth taking a closer look at the Quarterly National Household Survey results from last week. The difference between the public …
Banking Reform
Sean Ó Riain 29/05/2009
Sean O Riain: Once we have banks that have been re-capitalised and apparently stable once more, where does our financial system go? In negative …
Stimulus for Development
Sean Ó Riain 30/03/2009
Sean O Riain: Commentators across the spectrum have worried that the April budget will tax and cut so much money out of the economy that we will face …
Socio-economic dimensions of the worsening employment picture
Sean Ó Riain 03/03/2009
Sean O Riain: There is a helpful post over at irisheconomy.ie by Brendan Walsh outlining the worsening employment picture as reflected in the latest …
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Paul Sweeney
Paul Sweeney is former Chief Economist of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He was a …
Sean McCabe
Sean holds an B.Sc in Applied Physics from Dublin City University and an M.Sc. in …
Shana Cohen
Dr. Shana Cohen is the Director of TASC. She studied at Princeton University and at the …